A Guildford-based police officer has denied driving without due care and attention following a crash involving a police van and a car near Horsham last year

A Surrey Police officer has denied driving without due care and attention in relation to a crash which has left a severely injured woman in hospital for seven months.

PC Andrew Crabb, from Stane Street in Ockley, pleaded not guilty to the charge, relating to the incident on June 28 last year, when he appeared at Crawley Magistrates' Court on Wednesday (January 29).

The 46-year-old, based at the Surrey Police headquarters in Guildford, was charged after the unmarked Ford Transit van he was driving was in collision with a Ford Fiesta on the A29 near Horsham, West Sussex.

The 34-year-old female driver of the Fiesta was airlifted to hospital where she remains in a serious condition.

Surrey Police referred the incident to the Independent Police Complaints Commission, which decided to oversee an externally managed investigation carried out by Sussex Police.

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